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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 26, 22 October 1886, Page 18

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Whilßt the Conservatives are urging us to tteat Ireland as Russia treats Poland, there is a little reform which the Czar has inauguiated that we Radicals would do well to follow, says Truth. Tbehcir to the throne is to have his allowance cut down from £30,000 per annum to £10,000 per annum, whilst his wife's allowance i's to be £5000 per annum. What is deemed sufficient for the heir of all the Russias ought to be deemed enough for the heir of the British Empire. I have always thought that £50,000 per annum ought to suffice for the incumbent of the British Throne, and £10,000 per annnm for the heir to the Throne ; whilst I would give £2000 per annum to the younger children of the Monarch. As it is, the Royal Family costs us very nearly a million per annum ; and these huge allowances only tend to keep up the snobbish idea that there is something admirable in lavish and wasteful expenditure. A considerable portion of this million is not really spent by members of the Royal Family, but distributed amongst the members of the aristocracy for performing more or less silly duties about the Monarch and her relatives. Votes in the House of Lords are openly bought with promises of lucrative Couit appointments ; and when there is a change of Ministry, Peers and Peers' relatives fight for these appointments like a tribe of hungry wolves.